Confessions + Whereabouts

2020

Collaboration with Ichinokai Theater Company

Overview

This work is a joint project between myself and the Ichinokai Theater Company on the theme of the tsunami. The starting point was a video installation called “Confessions” that was exhibited in February 2020 at Tsunami Memorial Hall in Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture.
To reinterpret the original theme in “Confessions”, the Ichinokai Theater Company created a new story in the form of a theatrical production called “Whereabouts”, and further incorporated the two screens from “Confessions” into the theater space to create an original theatrical work.

本作品は、津波を主題とした作者と劇団一の会の共同作品であり、岩手県釜石市のいのちをつなぐ未来館で自身が2020年2月に展示した映像インスタレーション「告白」がきっかけとなっている。
この「告白」のテーマを再解釈する形で、劇団一の会が新たな演劇「行方」のストーリーを作成し、さらに「告白」の2面スクリーンを演劇の空間に取り込んで独創的な演劇空間を生み出した。

Credits

Theatrical production, 56min

Interview Video (Left Screen)
Interviewee: Masaaki Kimura
Director of Photography / Editor: Yasushi Noguchi

Tsunami Story Video (Right Screen)
Cast: Koichi Sakaguchi, Nina Kumagaya
Director of Photography / Editor: Masumi Saito
Gaffer: Hidehiko Kato
Sound: Kazuki Suzuki
Project Directior / Writer / Editor: Yasushi Noguchi

Drama: Whereabouts
Cast:
Namie Kimura: Mihoko Tamaki, Nina Kumagaya
Tetsuya Kimura: Naoyuki Kodama
Mina: Shoko Haruna (Arigo-ZA)
Unknown Man: Koichi Sakaguchi
Writer: Miki Mikie
Director: Nina Kumagaya
Sound Mixer: Okajun
Gaffer: Toshihiro Kodera
Production Manager: Genya Ohira
Promotion: Madoka Kudo
Special Thanks: 81 Produce, Arigo-ZA, Ouchi-Gohan, Akahi, Team Labo Sanno-Kai
Performance: Ichinokai Theater Company